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Week 1: Creativity
  • From an old world view to a new, Beare, Creating the future school, chapter 2 (2001).
  • Arias of learning: creativity and performativity in Australian teacher education, White, Cambridge Journal of Education, 36 (3) 2006 pp. 435-453.
  • Changing minds: A glimpse at the experience of transformative learning, Haywood, 2005.
  • Timeless learning, Miller, 2006.

Week 2: Classroom Management
  • Dreikurs' theory: Rudolf Dreikurs (wikipedia). Dreikurs’ Theory by Professor Lewis.
  • A Person-Centered Approach to Classroom Management, H. Jerome Freiberg (2007).
  • Teachers’ classroom discipline in Australia, China and Israel, Professor Ramon Lewis, Shlomo Romi, Xing, Qui & Yaacov J. Katz. (2005)
  • Classroom Discipline, Ramon Lewis, In Handbook of Classroom Management: Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues (2006). Evertson, M.C. & Wenstein, C.S. (Eds). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. New Jersey.

Week 3: So you want to be a Teacher!
  • Contradictory Realities in Learning to Teach, Britzman (2003).
  • Bridging Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, Mordechai Gordon and Thomas O'Brien (2007).
  • Begining: The Challenge of Teaching. W. Ayers (2001) Chapter1 p 1-24.

Week 4: Planning for Learning
  • What's Worth Knowing? N. Postman & C. Weingartner (1972).
  • A Tool Kit for Learning, Chapter One, An Imaginative Approach to Teaching Egan KO (2005)
  • Bloom's Taxonomy, J. Dalton, J (1986) "Extending Children's Special Abilities": Ministry of Education, Victoria, pp31-32

Week 5: Models of Teaching and Learning
Multiple Intelligences

Links to video clips associated with various Learning Theories.pdf


Edward DeBono

Cooperative Learning
The Cooperative Learning Center at the University of Minnesota

Kieran Egan web site
"...One of the most original "big picture" thinkers in education.." Howard Gardner

Parker Palmer The Courage to Teach -web site

Choice Theory The William Glasser Institute

Merlin W. Donald Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology & Faculty of Education, selected publications

Blooms Revised Taxonomy poster.pdf


Inquiry-based Learning.

Inquiry-based learning A website explaining the inquiry-based learning theory.


Week 6: Teacher Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct

Week 7: Who are your Students

Week 8: Issues from the Coal face - VIT and Planning
Lecture notes
Diane Powells lecture.doc

Principles of Learning and Teaching